It's obvious that the UFC is watering down their cards and the fans, including myself, don't think it's fair to pay $50-60 if there's only 1-2 fights that you actually care to see. Would it be possible to pay-per-fight? For example, UFC 170. This card was weak to begin with and now with the DC/Rashad being scrapped, how many people plan on paying for this event? Would you pay for it at a lesser price to watch only Rousey/McMann and Maia/MacDonald? Here's an example of a possible pay structure using the UFC 171 main card

Give the fighters a bonus if their fight reaches a certain number of buys..I believe there's a bunch of non-champions that deserve ppv points because they're a draw and always put on a show

How do you propose they do this time-wise? If you order the DC fight this weekend, is your screen blacked out and then it pops on when the fight happens then goes back to black?

This makes no sense unless its an on-demand thing available immeidiately after the fight happens.

That'd be pretty easy. Either have each match on a different channel like they used to do for nascar in cams, so you're just buying the channels you want available for that night. Or have the purchase window close before the ppv start, and then the cable company just turns your feed on when your match starts and turns it of when it's over.

Cable company's are also known for screwing things up, you may get the whole ppv for 10 bucks. Of course then Dana would sue you.

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I don't think the UFC is losing as much money as they think because of streaming.

It's obvious that the UFC is watering down their cards and the fans, including myself, don't think it's fair to pay $50-60 if there's only 1-2 fights that you actually care to see. Would it be possible to pay-per-fight? For example, UFC 170. This card was weak to begin with and now with the DC/Rashad being scrapped, how many people plan on paying for this event? Would you pay for it at a lesser price to watch only Rousey/McMann and Maia/MacDonald? Here's an example of a possible pay structure using the UFC 171 main card

PoiuPoiu - blame the Europeans, Asians, and Latinos. UFC is free in those countries

Free in Europe? Really? I dont think so, i have been paying full price for every ppv, not even a discount up until now. It is only free in market like Germany where they have interest in. People over the Europe stopped paying for PPVs if theres full price they have to pay for and germans get it for free. Almost all that i know of switched to torrents because of that.

And they get the event uploaded 1 hour after it is finished, for free, in early morning hours, and they can still get normal sleep, not waking up at like 3am at night just to watch the event. Personally i ve bought around 50+ ppvs for full price, got up at 3am watching the events, but not anymore, after ufc 169. Not even getting a discounted price for an event that is free in Germany (where they have the event for free) which is like 200 miles away from where i am at, feels stupid. I even emailed ufc support about it few times, and they said they had nothing to do with the price discrepancy in EU. Then who does.. Lol. Just showed how ignorant they are and unwilling to hear the fans out. Noe i am not paying anymore since ufc 169. So, briefely, thats what is going on in some EU countries :)

the UFC is on BT sports or Start sports, a network similar to espn, you dont get that in thirdworld-i-stan ?

It's good customer service to not fuck with streamers, I'm on a budget, so if they let me get by streaming occasionally, so that I can keep up with the sport, ill buy the fights I really care about, but if they wanna be dicks, I won't give them any of my money.

It's like when a fast food place fucks up my order, if they replace it I will come back, if they're dicks, Ill go somewhere else.

PoiuPoiu - blame the Europeans, Asians, and Latinos. UFC is free in those countries

Free in Europe? Really? I dont think so, i have been paying full price for every ppv, not even a discount up until now. It is only free in market like Germany where they have interest in. People over the Europe stopped paying for PPVs if theres full price they have to pay for and germans get it for free. Almost all that i know of switched to torrents because of that.

And they get the event uploaded 1 hour after it is finished, for free, in early morning hours, and they can still get normal sleep, not waking up at like 3am at night just to watch the event. Personally i ve bought around 50+ ppvs for full price, got up at 3am watching the events, but not anymore, after ufc 169. Not even getting a discounted price for an event that is free in Germany (where they have the event for free) which is like 200 miles away from where i am at, feels stupid. I even emailed ufc support about it few times, and they said they had nothing to do with the price discrepancy in EU. Then who does.. Lol. Just showed how ignorant they are and unwilling to hear the fans out. Noe i am not paying anymore since ufc 169. So, briefely, thats what is going on in some EU countries :)

the UFC is on BT sports or Start sports, a network similar to espn, you dont get that in thirdworld-i-stan ?

its not "free" but on basic cable

I'm from Slovenia, which is a fair member of EU since 2004 and really, wouldn't exactly call it thirdworld-i-stan, unless trying to be rude for some reason.

I know that in UK it is not "free" but on a cable TV, i was talking about Germany, where afaik they do not have it on cable TV (as we dont have it, or Hungary, Czech, Slovakia, Austria dunno for Italy), but they can stream PPV for free in Germany. This is where discrepancy comes from. You can easily VPN it for free with .de server.

I agree it's wrong but I don't think they have lost anything. The people that are streaming would have not purchased the event regardless IMO.

As far as taking money away from the fighters the UFC seems to be doing a fine job of that themselves. How the hell Dana sleeps at night paying a fighter only 10 grand to fight for a world title or killing off sponsorship money is beyond me.

JerodR - I agree it's wrong but I don't think they have lost anything. The people that are streaming would have not purchased the event regardless IMO.

As far as taking money away from the fighters the UFC seems to be doing a fine job of that themselves. How the hell Dana sleeps at night paying a fighter only 10 grand to fight for a world title or killing off sponsorship money is beyond me.

PoiuPoiu - blame the Europeans, Asians, and Latinos. UFC is free in those countries

Free in Europe? Really? I dont think so, i have been paying full price for every ppv, not even a discount up until now. It is only free in market like Germany where they have interest in. People over the Europe stopped paying for PPVs if theres full price they have to pay for and germans get it for free. Almost all that i know of switched to torrents because of that.

And they get the event uploaded 1 hour after it is finished, for free, in early morning hours, and they can still get normal sleep, not waking up at like 3am at night just to watch the event. Personally i ve bought around 50+ ppvs for full price, got up at 3am watching the events, but not anymore, after ufc 169. Not even getting a discounted price for an event that is free in Germany (where they have the event for free) which is like 200 miles away from where i am at, feels stupid. I even emailed ufc support about it few times, and they said they had nothing to do with the price discrepancy in EU. Then who does.. Lol. Just showed how ignorant they are and unwilling to hear the fans out. Noe i am not paying anymore since ufc 169. So, briefely, thats what is going on in some EU countries :)

This is good news. The UFC has 90% of the talent and they still manage to put on shitty cards and their promotion ability is terrible. It goes to show that one major promotion is bad for fans if that promotion is being run by people who don't know how to generate interest.

The best thing that can happen for the sport of MMA is the UFC going downhill and maybe even bankrupt. In the short term it would be bad, but eventually you will see the sport rise again with another competitor and the pressure to outdo the competition will lead to better cards, promotion, and more excitement.

PoiuPoiu - blame the Europeans, Asians, and Latinos. UFC is free in those countries

Free in Europe? Really? I dont think so, i have been paying full price for every ppv, not even a discount up until now. It is only free in market like Germany where they have interest in. People over the Europe stopped paying for PPVs if theres full price they have to pay for and germans get it for free. Almost all that i know of switched to torrents because of that.

And they get the event uploaded 1 hour after it is finished, for free, in early morning hours, and they can still get normal sleep, not waking up at like 3am at night just to watch the event. Personally i ve bought around 50+ ppvs for full price, got up at 3am watching the events, but not anymore, after ufc 169. Not even getting a discounted price for an event that is free in Germany (where they have the event for free) which is like 200 miles away from where i am at, feels stupid. I even emailed ufc support about it few times, and they said they had nothing to do with the price discrepancy in EU. Then who does.. Lol. Just showed how ignorant they are and unwilling to hear the fans out. Noe i am not paying anymore since ufc 169. So, briefely, thats what is going on in some EU countries :)

I'm sorry, I missed that. Did you say Germans get it for free?

As far as i know, it is free for Germany from UFC 112, on UFC.TV, you can change all the camera angles and i think commentary too.

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